EP0173584B1 - Heat-developable color photo-sensitive material - Google Patents

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EP0173584B1
EP0173584B1 EP19850306221 EP85306221A EP0173584B1 EP 0173584 B1 EP0173584 B1 EP 0173584B1 EP 19850306221 EP19850306221 EP 19850306221 EP 85306221 A EP85306221 A EP 85306221A EP 0173584 B1 EP0173584 B1 EP 0173584B1
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    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C8/00—Diffusion transfer processes or agents therefor; Photosensitive materials for such processes
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  • This invention relates to heat-developable color photo-sensitive material in which a color-image is produced by transferring a dye formed in a heat-development process, and more particularly to a heat-developable color photosensitive material containing a novel dye-providing material capable of forming a diffusion type dye through a heat-development process to produce a heat-developable color diffusion transfer image.
  • a photographic method which uses a photo-sensitive silver halide and which is superior in photo-sensitivity, gradation and image preservability to other photographic methods and has been most frequently put into practice.
  • a photo-sensitive material comprising an organic silver salt, a silver halide and a reducing agent are disclosed in, for example, JP-B-4921/1968 and JP-B-4924/1968.
  • heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials for forming color images through the reaction of couplers with the oxidants of an aromatic primary amine developing agent are disclosed in e.g. US-A-3,531,286, US ⁇ A ⁇ 3,761,270 and US-A-3,764,328.
  • JP-A-179840/1982 discloses a heat-developable color photo- sensitive material in which a color image pattern is formed by using a reducible dye-providing material capable of releasing both a dye-releasing assistant and a diffusible dye.
  • this dye-releasing assistant is the so-called base or a basic precursor.
  • fog is increased and the maximum density is lowered due to the existence of the base in a heat-developable photo-sensitive material using an organic silver salt oxidizing agent.
  • JP-A- Nos. 186744/1982 (USP-4,474,867), and 123533/1983 disclose heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials in which a color transfer image pattern is obtained by releasing or producing a diffusible dye through heat-development.
  • the exemplified compounds of the dye-providing materials disclosed cause color turbidity and it is therefore believed that migration of the compounds between the layers is not completely prohibited during the multiple coating or heat-developing process.
  • JP-A-149047/1983 (US ⁇ A ⁇ 4,455,363) and Japanese Patent Application No. 109293/1983 (which was invented by the present inventors) disclose methods of compensating for the above-mentioned defect, in which a polymer is used as a dye-providing material. Even the exemplified compounds described therein have the defects that, although the migration of dye-providing material is successfully prohibited, the efficiency of producing diffusible dye is extremely low and the maximum density (Dmax) of a transfer image pattern is low or the fog Dmin) thereof is high.
  • GB-A-2056103 discloses a sensitive photothermographic material which comprises a support coated on one side with at least one binder-containing layer and incorporated in the layer or layers, a photographic silver halide, a dye-forming coupler which may be polymeric and a specific hydrazone reducing agent the oxidation product of which reacts with the coupler to form a dye.
  • the invention seeks to reduce the problems of the above-mentioned dye-providing materials, by providing a heat-developable color photo-sensitive material containing a novel dye-providing material.
  • the present invention also seeks to provide a heat-developable color photo-sensitive material which is capable of obtaining a color image pattern which has very little color turbidity and is sharply reproducible.
  • the dye-providing polymer used should be very efficient at producing a diffusible dye.
  • the present invention also relates to a transfer image pattern which is high in density and low in fog.
  • the present invention provides a heat-developable color photo-sensitive material comprising a support bearing a photo-sensitive component layer comprising on or more photo-sensitive silver halides, reducing agents, binders and dye-providing materials characterised in that at least one of said dye-providing materials is a polymer having a repetition unit which is derived from a monomer of Formula (I): wherein, Z is a phenyl or 1-naphthyl group, substituted in the 4-position with hydroxyl, which is optionally further substituted; Y is oxygen or sulfur; Q is an ethylenically unsaturated group and M is hydrogen, an ammonium group or a monovalent metal atom.
  • Formula (I) wherein, Z is a phenyl or 1-naphthyl group, substituted in the 4-position with hydroxyl, which is optionally further substituted; Y is oxygen or sulfur; Q is an ethylenically unsaturated group and M is hydrogen, an ammonium group
  • Q represents an ethylenically unsaturated groiup and is preferably of Formula [II].
  • Z represents a divalent hydrocarbon group: J represents a divalent group; R, and R 2 each independently represent hydrogen, a carboxy group, an alkoxy carbonyl group or an alkyl group; m and n are each independently 1 or 0.
  • Z represents a divalent hydrocarbon group.
  • the divalent hydrocarbon groups include, for example, an alkylene group such as methylene-group, ethylene group and propylene group; an arylene group such as phenylene group; an aralkylene group such as phenylmethylene group; alkylenearylene group such as methylenephenylene group and ethylenephenylene group; an arylenealkylene group such as phenylenemethylene group or phenyleneethylene group.
  • J represents a divalent group such as -NHCO-, -CONH-, ⁇ NHSO 2 ⁇ ⁇ SO 2 NH ⁇ , -NHCOCH 2 -, -CH 2 CONH-, -0-, -S-, -CO-, ⁇ SO 2 ⁇ , -COO- or -OCO-, and preferably ⁇ NHCO ⁇ , ⁇ NHCOCH 2 ⁇ or ⁇ OCO ⁇ .
  • R, and J may, together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a ring.
  • R, and R 2 are each independently hydrogen atom, a carboxy group, an alkoxy carbonyl group or an alkyl group.
  • An alkoxycarbonyl group includes, for example, methoxycarbonyl and an alkyl group includes methyl or ethyl.
  • An alkyl group represented by R, or R 2 may have a substituent, including for example, carboxy group, a halogen atom such as fluorine atom or chlorine atom, an alkoxycarbonyl group such as methoxycarbonyl or an aryl group such as phenyl.
  • Z is of Formula [III].
  • R 3 , R 4 and R s are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, acyl, acyloxy, acylamino, alkoxyalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonyloxy, alkoxycarbonylamino, alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, arylamino, cycloalkylamino, cyano, nitro, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, hydroxyl, ureido, sulfamoylamino, alkylsulfonyloxy, arylsulfonylamino, alkylsulfonylamino, alkylthio, arylthio, heterocyclic residue, imido or
  • substituents described above may further be substituted by a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, a nitro group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, an acyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfo group, a carboxy group, an acylamino group, an alkylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, a sulfamoylamino group, an imido group or a halogen atom.
  • R 3 , R 4 and R 5 respectively represent, preferably, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, a cyano group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, an acyl group, an acylamino group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, an ureido group, a halogen atom or hydrogen atom.
  • R 3 represents a halogen atom in which chlorine atom or fluorine atom is preferable or hydrogen atom
  • R 4 represents an alkyl group in which a methyl group and an ethyl group is preferable
  • R 5 represents an acylamino group
  • the aggregate number of carbon atoms of these substituents is preferably not more than 12 and more preferably not more than 8
  • the number of carbon atoms of either substituent is preferably not more than 6.
  • the molecular weight of a coupler residual group in the Formula [III] is preferably not more than 500 and more preferably not more than 400.
  • the resulting solution was filtrated and the filtrate was condensed to be 100 ml. Then, 50 ml of water containing 3.0 g of sodium hydroxide were added to 100 ml of the filtrate. After stirring for six hours at room temperature, the solution was neutralized by salting-out and the resulting deposited white-colored solids (a-[(2-methyl-3-chloro-4-hydroxy-5-acetylamino)-phenoxy]-y-(p-aminophenyl)butyric acid) were filtrated.
  • the polymers each having a repetitition unit, which are derived from the monomeric compounds represented by the Formula [I], may be the so-called homopolymers each having a repetition unit, which comprise only one kind of the monomers represented by the Formula (I), or they may be the copolymers each comprising a combination of not less than two kinds of the monomers having the Formula [I], or they may further be copolymers each comprising one or more kinds of other copolymers each comprising one or more kinds of other comonomers each having copolymerizable ethylene unsaturated group.
  • the comonomers each having the above-mentioned ethylene unsaturated group which are capable of forming a copolymer with the monomers having the Formula [I]
  • the acrylic acid esters include, for example, methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, n-propyl acrylate, isopropyl acrylate, n-butyl acrylate, isobutyl acrylate, sec-butyl acrylate, tert-butyl acrylate, amyl acrylate, hexyl acrylate, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate, octyl acrylate, tert-octyl acrylate, 2-chloroethyl acrylate, 2-bromoethyl acrylate, 4-chlorobutyl acrylate, cyanoethyl acrylate, 2-acetoxyethyl acrylate, dimethylaminoethyl acrylate, benzyl acrylate, methoxybenzyl acrylate, 2-chlorocyclohexyl acrylate
  • the methacrylic acid esters include, for example, methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, n-propyl methacrylate, isopropyl methacrylate, n-butyl methacrylate, isobutyl methacrylate, sec-butyl methacrylate, tert-butyl methacrylate, amyl methacrylate, hexyl methacrylate, cyclohexyl methacrylate, benzyl methacrylate, chlorobenzyl methacrylate, octyl methacrylate, sulfopropyl methacrylate, N-ethyl-N-phenyl- aminoethyl methacrylate 2-(3-phenylpropyloxy)ethyl methacrylate, dimethylaminophenoxyethyl methacrylate, furfuryl methacrylate, tetrahydrofurfuryl methacrylate, phenyl
  • the vinyl esters include, for example, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl butylate, vinyl isobutylate, vinyl caproate, vinyl choroacetate, vinyl methoxyacetate, vinyl phenylacetate, vinyl benzoate and vinyl salicylate.
  • the olefins include, for example, dicyclopentadiene, ethylene, propylene, 1-butene, 1-pentene, vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, isoprene, chloroprene, butadiene and 2,3-dimethylbutadiene.
  • the styrenes include, for example, styrene, methylstyrene, dimethylstyrene, trimethylstyrene, ethylstyrene, isopropylstyrene, chloromethylstyrene, methoxystyrene, acetoxystyrene, chlorostyrene, dichlorostyrene, bromostyrene and methyl vinylbenzoate.
  • the crotonic acid esters include, for example, butyl chrotonate and hexyl crotonate.
  • the itaconic acid diesters include, for example, dimethyl itaconate, diethyl itaconate and dibutyl itaconate.
  • the maleic acid diesters include, for example, diethyl maleate, dimethyl maleate and dibutyl maleate.
  • the fumaric acid diesters include, for example, diethyl fumarate, dimethyl fumarate and dibutyl fumarate.
  • An acrylamide such as acrylamide, methylacrylamide, ethylacrylamide, propylacrylamido, butylacrylamide, tert-butylacrylamide, cyclohexylacrylamide, benzylacrylamide, hydroxymethylacrylamide, methoxyethylacrylamide, dimethylaminoethylacrylamide, phenylacrylamide, dimethylacrylamide, diethyl- acrylamide, [3-cyanoethylacrylamide and N-(2-acetoacetoxyethyl)acrylamide;
  • a methacrylamide such as methacrylamide, methylmethacrylamide, ethylmethacrylamide, propyl- methacrylamide, butylmethacrylamide, tert-butylmethacrylamide, cyclohexylmethacrylamide, benzyl- methacrylamide, hydroxymethylmethacrylamide, methoxyethylmethacrylamide, dimethylaminoethyl- methacrylamide, phenyl methacrylamide dimethylmethacrylamide, ⁇ -cyanoethylmethacrvlamide and N-(2-acetoacetoxyethyl)methacrylamide.
  • allyl compound such as allyl acetate, allyl caproate, allyl laurate and allyl benzoate;
  • a vinylether such as methylvinylether, butylvinylether, hexylvinylether, methoxyethylvinylether and dimethylaminoethylvinylether;
  • a vinylketone such as methylvinylketone, phenylvinylketone and methoxyethylvinylketone
  • a vinylheterocyclic compound such as vinylpyridine, N-vinylimidazole, N-vinyloxazolidone, N-vinyl- triazole and N-vinylpyrolydone;
  • a glycidyl ester such as glycidyl acrylate and glycidyl methacrylate
  • An unsaturated nitrile such as acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile
  • a multifunctional monomer such as divinylbenzene, methylenebisacrylamide and ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate.
  • the monomer may be acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, itaconic acid, maleic acid and a monoalkyl itaconate, such as monomethyl itaconate, monoethyl itaconate and monobutyl itaconate; a monoalkyl maleate such as monomethyl melate, monoethyl maleate and monobutyl maleate; citraconic acid, stylene- sulfonic acid, vinylbenzylsulfonic acid, vinylsulfonic acid, an acryloyloxyalkylsulfonic acid such as acryloyloxymethylsulfonic acid, acryloyloxyethylsulfonic acid, acryloyloxypropylsulfonic acid; a methacryloxyalkylsulfonic acid such as methacryloyloxymethylsulfonic acid, methacryloyloxyethylsulfonic acid and methacryloylpropylsulfonic acid; an acryla
  • acids may also be in the form of alkali metal e.g. Na or K, or an ammonium ion, salt.
  • alkali metal e.g. Na or K
  • ammonium ion, salt such as sodium ion, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulfate, sodium sulf
  • a preferable case thereof is that the contents of the repetition unit comprising a monomer having the Formula [I] are from 10 wt% to 90 wt% of the whole polymer, and more preferable case is that the contents thereof are 30 wt% to 70 wt% of the whole polymer.
  • a polymer coupler is prepared in an emulsion-polymerization process or in a solution-polymerization process.
  • the same processes may be applied to the dye-providing polymers having the repetition unit derived from the monomers having the Formula [I].
  • the emulsion-polymerization processes those described in U.S. Patent Nos. 4,080,211 and 3,370,952 may be applied, and as for the processes in which hydrophilic polymers are dispersed to serve as the latex into an aqueous solution of gelatin, those described in U.S. Patent No. 3,451,820 may be applied.
  • the comonomers thereof may be liquid comonomers which may serve, in a normal state, as a solvent for a stationary monomer, when emulsification-polymerizing.
  • the emulsifying agents include a surface active agent, a macromolecular protective colloid, and a copolymeric emulsifying agent.
  • the surface active agents there include, for example, an anionic active agent, a nonionic active agent, a cationic active agent, and an amphoteric active agent.
  • anionic active agent there are given as the examples, a soap, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, sodium laurylsulfate, sodium dioctylsulfosuccinate, and a sulfuric acid salt of a nonionic active agent.
  • nonionic active agents there include, for example, a polyoxyethylene nonylphenyl ether, a polyoxyethylene stearic acid ester, a polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurylic acid ester or a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer.
  • cationic active agents there include, for example, an alkylpyridium salt or tertiary amine.
  • amphoteric active agents there include, for example, a dimethyl alkyl betaine or an alkyl glycine.
  • macromolecular protective colloids there include, for example, a polyvinyl alcohol or hydroxyethyl cellulose. They may be used independently to serve as an emulsifying agent and may also be used in combination with the other surface active agents. The various kinds and functions of these active agents are described in 'Belgische Chemische Industrie, 28, 16-20 (1963)'.
  • organic solvents for dissolving the lipophilic polymers there include, for example, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate or propyl acetate, and an alcohol, a ketone, a halogenated hydrocarbon or an ether. These organic solvents may be used independently or in combination with two or more kinds of them.
  • the solvents to be used in a polymerization process are a monomer and a well-qualified solvent for dye-providing polymers to be produced, and are relatively low in reactivity with a polymerization starting agent.
  • water there include, for example, water, toluene, an alcohol (e.g., methanol, ethanol, iso-propanol and tert- butanol), acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, tetrahydrofuran, dioxane, ethyl acetate, dimethyl formamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, acetonitrile or methylene chloride; and these solvents may be used independently or in a a mixture of two or more kinds thereof.
  • an alcohol e.g., methanol, ethanol, iso-propanol and tert- butanol
  • acetone e.g., methyl ethyl ketone
  • tetrahydrofuran dioxane
  • ethyl acetate dimethyl formamide
  • dimethyl sulfoxide acetonitrile or methylene chloride
  • solvents may be used independently or in a a mixture of
  • the temperatures for a polymerization process are normally within the range of from 30°C to 120°C, though it is necessary to take the kinds of the polymerization starting agents and the solvents into consideration.
  • the polymerization starting agents to be used in the emulsification-polymerization process or the solution-polymerization process for preparing a dye-providing polymer there include the following ones:
  • a water-soluble polymerization starting agent there include, for example, a persulfate such as potassium persulfate, ammonium persulfate, sodium persulfate and the like; a water-soluble azo compound such as 4,4'-azobis-4-sodium cyanovalerate, 2,2'-azobis(2-amidinopropane) chloride and the like; and hydrogen peroxide.
  • a persulfate such as potassium persulfate, ammonium persulfate, sodium persulfate and the like
  • a water-soluble azo compound such as 4,4'-azobis-4-sodium cyanovalerate, 2,2'-azobis(2-amidinopropane) chloride and the like
  • hydrogen peroxide hydrogen peroxide
  • the lipophilic polymerization starting agents to be used in the solution-polymerization process there include, for example, an azo compound such as azobisisobutylonitrile, 2,2'-azobis-(2,4-dimethylvaleronitrile), 2,2'-azobis-(4-methoxy-2,4-dimethylvaleronitrile), 1,1'-azobis(cyciohexanon-1-carbonitriie), 2,2'-azobisisocyanobutyric acid, dimethyl-2,2'-azobisisobutyrate, 1,1'-azobis(cyc)ohexanone-1-carbonitrile), 4,4'-azobis-4-cyanovaleric acid; a peroxide compound such as benzoyl peroxide, lauryl peroxide, chlorobenzyl peroxide, diisopropyl peroxycarbonate and di-t-butyl peroxide.
  • a peroxide compound such as benzoyl peroxide, lauryl per
  • These polymerization starting agents may be contained in the range of from 0.01 wt% to 10 wt% and more preferably from 0.1 wt% to 5 wt% to the aggregate quantity of monomers in the emulsification-polymerization process or in the solution-polymerization process.
  • the other processes such as a suspension-polymerization process and a block-polymerization may also be applied.
  • this invention there contains . every one of the dye-providing homopolymer of the monomers having the Formula [I], a copolymer comprising two or more of the monomers in combination, or a copolymer comprising the monomers and at least one kind of the other polymerizable comonomers as the copolymeric components.
  • the synthesizing processes shall not limit the invention.
  • a solution was prepared by adding 20 g of the exemplified monomer (C-1) and 30 g of butyl acrylate into 100 ml of dioxane and the resulting solution was heated up to 80 - 82°C while introducing nitrogen gas. With keeping the temperature, 600 mg of 2,2-azobisisobutylonitrile were added and a reaction was made for four hours. After completing the reaction, the resulting reactant liquid was poured into one liter of water and the precipitates thereof were filtrated out. Then the precipitates were dissolved into ethyl acetate, dried on magnesium sulfate, and filtered. The filtrate was condensed and dried up. Thus, the objective polymer (PC-2) was obtained.
  • the molecular weight of a dye-providing polymer of the invention is within the range of from 1,500 to 100,000 in term of weight-average molecular weight (Mw).
  • Any dye-providing polymer of the invention may be used independently or in combination.
  • the amount thereof to be used is not limited but may be depended upon the kinds of the polymers, whether they are to be used independently or in combination with two or more of them or whether the photographic component layer of the photo-sensitive material of the invention is single-layered or multi-layered with two or more layers.
  • an amount to be used is from 0.005 g to 10 g and preferably from 0.1 g to 5.0 g per square-meter of a support.
  • any arbitrary process may be applied to contain a dye-providing polymer in the photographic component layers of a heat-developable color photo-sensitive material.
  • the polymers may be contained in the component layer in such a manner that the polymers are dissolved in a low-boiling solvent such as methanol, ethanol or ethyl acetate, or a high-boiling solvent such as dibutyl phthalate, dioctyl phthalate or tricresyl phosphate, and the resulting solution is then dispersed by ultrasonic waves; that the polymers are dissolved in an aqueous alkali solution such as an aqueous solution of 10% sodium hydroxide and the resulted solution is neutralized by a mineral acid such as hydrochloric acid or nitric acid; or that the polymers are dispersed together with an aqueous solution of a suitable polymer such as polyvinyl butyral or polyvinyl pyrrolidone, by making use of a ball
  • a heat-developable color photo-sensitive material of the invention contains a photo-sensitive silver halide as well as the above-mentioned dye-providing polymer.
  • the photo-sensitive silver halide to be used in the invention include, for example, silver chloride, silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide, silver iodobromide and silver chloroiodobromide.
  • These photo-sensitive silver halide can be prepared in such an arbitrary process in the photographic technical field as a single-jet process or a double-jet process.
  • the desired results are obtained with the use of photo-sensitive silver halide emulsions containing a photo-sensitive silver halide prepared in accordance with an ordinary preparation process of a silver halide gelatin emulsion.
  • Such photo-sensitive silver halide emulsions may also be chemically sensitized in an arbitrary process used in the photographic technical field.
  • sensitizing processes there are various processes including, for example, a gold sensitization, a sulphur sensitization, a gold-sulphur sensitization or a reduction sensitization.
  • the silver halide of the above-mentioned photo-sensitive emulsions may be either coarse grain or fine grain.
  • the preferred grain sizes are from 0.001 pm to 1.5 ⁇ m in diameter and more preferably from 0.01 ⁇ m to 0.5 pm.
  • the photo-sensitive silver halide emulsions prepared as mentioned above can be most preferably applied to a heat-developable photo-sensitive layer that is a component layer of the photo-sensitive materials of this invention.
  • an inorganic halide may be given as the example thereof, including, for example; a halide represented by MXn in which M represents hydrogen, NH 4 group or a metal atom, X represents Cl, Br or I and n is 1 when the M is hydrogen or NH 4 group, and when M is a metal atom, n is the valence thereof, and the metal atoms include those of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, trioum, copper, gold, beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, zinc, cadmium, mercury, aluminum, indium, lanthanum, ruthenium, thalium, germanium, tin, lead, antimony, bismuth, chromium, molybdenum, wolfram, manganese, rhenium, iron, cobalt, nickel, rhodium, paradium, osmium, iridium, platinum, cerium; a halide represented by MXn in which M represents hydrogen, NH 4 group or
  • photo-sensitive silver halide and the photo-sensitive silver salt forming components may be used in combination in various processes.
  • a preferable amount used thereof is from 0.002 mol to 10 mol, and a more preferable amount is from 0.02 mol to 2.0 mol per mol of a dye-providing material monomer unit.
  • the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention may be qualified if at least one layer containing the dye-providing polymer is incorporated. It may also comprise each of blue-light-sensitive, green-light-sensitive and red-light-sensitive layers, namely, a multiple-layer comprising a heat-developable blue-light-sensitive layer, a heat-developable green-light-sensitive layer and a red-light-sensitive layer, and the same light-sensitive layer thereof may be divided into two or more layers such as a combination of a high sensitive layer and a low sensitive layer.
  • Each of the blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion, green-light sensitive silver halide emulsion and red-light-sensitive silver halide emulsion to be used in the above-mentioned case may be prepared by adding various kinds of spectral sensitization dyes to the silver halide emulsions.
  • the spectral sensitization dyes which may typically be used in this invention include, for example cyanine, merocyanine, a trinuclear or tetranuclear complex cyanine, holopolar cyanine, styryl, hemicyanine, oxonole and the like.
  • cyanine dyes those each having a basic nucleus such as thiazoline, oxazoline, pyrroline, pyridine, oxazole, thiazole, selenazole, and imidazole are preferred to use.
  • Such a nucleus may have an enamine group capable of producing an alkyl group, alkylene group, hydroxyalkyl group, sulfoalkyl group, carboxyalkyl group, aminoalkyl group, or a condensed carbocyclic or heterocyclic color ring. Also, it may be in the symmetric or unsymmetric form, and the methine chain or the polymethine chain thereof may have an alkyl group, a phenyl group, an enamine group and a heterocyclic substituent.
  • the merocyanine dyes may also have, for example, such an acid nucleus as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid, a thiazolinethione nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus, and a pyrazolone nucleus.
  • an acid nucleus as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid, a thiazolinethione nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus, and a pyrazolone nucleus.
  • These acid nuclei may also be substituted by either of an alkyl, alkylene, phenyl, carboxyalkyl, sulfoalkyl, hydroxylalkyl, alkoxyalkyl or alkylamine group, or a heterocyclic ring nucleus. If required, these dyes may further be used in combination. It is still further possible to jointly use such a supersensitive additive incapable of absorbing any visible rays of light as an ascorbic acid derivative, an azaindene cadmium salt, an organic sulfonic acid and the like including, for example, those described in U.S. Patent Nos. 2,933,390, and 2,937,089.
  • the amount of these dyes to be added is from 1 x 10- 4 mole to 1 mole per mol of a silver halide or a silver halide forming component, and more preferably, from 1 x 10- 4 mole to 1 x 10-' mole.
  • various kinds of organic silver salts may be used if required for increasing the sensitivity and improving the developability of the materials.
  • organic silver salts to be used to the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention there may be given as the examples thereof the following; an aliphatic carboxylic acid silver salt such as silver laurate, silver myristate, silver palmitate, silver stearate, silver arachidonate, silver behenate and silver ⁇ -(1-phenyltetrazolethio) acetate, an aromatic silver carboxylate such as silver benzoate and silver phthalate, as described in Japanese Patent Examined Publication Nos. 4921/1968, 26582/1969,18416/ 1970,12700/1970, and 22185/1970, Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication No.
  • organic silver salts silver salts of an imino group are preferred to use, especially silver salts of a benzotriazole derivative are preferred, and further, silver salts of a sulfobenzotriazole derivative are more preferred to use.
  • the organic silver salts to be used in the invention may be used independently or in combination with two or more kinds thereof. They may also be used in such a manner that they are isolated and are then dispersed in a binder by a suitable means, or in such a manner that a silver salt is prepared in a suitable binder and the resulted silver salt is used as it is without applying any isolation.
  • the amount of the above-mentioned organic silver salts to be used is preferably from 0.1 mol to 5 mol and more preferably from 0.3 mol to 3 mol, per mol of a dye-providing material monomer unit.
  • the reducing agents to be used in the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention are those which are popularly used in the field of heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials.
  • the developing agents of p-phenylenediamine type, p-aminophenol type, phosphoramidophenol type, sulfonamidophenol type or hydrazone type color developing agent, described in, for example, U.S. Patent Nos. 3,531,286, 3,761,270, and 3,764,328, Research Disclosure Nos. 12146,15108 and 15127, and Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication No. 27132/1981.
  • the color developing agent precursors which are described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,342,599, and 3,719,492, and Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication Nos. 135,628/1978 and 79035/1979.
  • the particularly preferable reducing agents may be given those represented by the following Formula [IV] appeared in Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication No. 146133/1981:
  • R 6 and R each represent hydrogen or an alkyl group which is allowed to have a substituent and has one to 30 carbon atoms and preferably one to four carbon atoms, and the R 6 and R 7 may close a ring so as to form a heterocyclic ring;
  • R a , Rg, R 10 and R 11 each represent hydrogen, a halogen, a hydroxy group, an amino group, an alkoxy group, an acylamide group, a sulfonamide group, an alkylsulfonamide group, or an alkyl group which is allowed to have a substituent and has one to 30 carbon atoms, and preferably, one to four carbon atoms, and the R a and R 6 , and the R 10 and R 7 each may close a ring so as to form a heterocyclic ring, respectively; and M represents an alkaline metal atom or a compound containing an ammonium group, a nitrogen-containing organic base or a quaternary nitrogen atom.
  • the nitrogen-containing organic base in the Formula [IV] is an organic compound containing a nitrogen atom which is capable of producing an inorganic acid and a salt and displays a basicity.
  • the particularly essential organic bases include, for example, an amine compound.
  • Chain amine compounds include, for example, primary amine, secondary amine, and tertiary amine, and cyclic amine compounds include pyridine, quinoline, piperidine or imidazole as the famous examples of the typical heterocyclic organic bases.
  • a compound as hydroxylamine, hydrazine, amidine and the like is also useful for a chain amine.
  • the salts of nitrogen-containing organic bases such an inorganic acid salt as a chloride, a sulfate or a nitrate of the organic bases is preferably used.
  • the compounds each containing quaternary nitrogen in the formula above there include, for example, a salt or hydroxide of a nitrogen compound having a quatrivalent covalent bond.
  • a phenol e.g., p-phenylphenol, p-methoxyphenol, 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-cresol, N-methyl-p-aminophenol
  • a sulfonamidephenol ⁇ e.g., 4-benzenesulfonamidephenol, 2-benzenesulfonamidephenol, 2,6-dichloro-4-benzenesulfonamidephenol, 2,6-dibromo-4-(p-toluenesulfonamide)phenol
  • a poly- hydroxybenzene e.g., hydroquinone, tert-butylhydroquinone, 2,6-dimethylhydroquinone, chlorohydroquinone, carboxyhydroquinone, catechol, 3-carboxycatechol
  • a naphthol e.g., a-naphthol, (3-naphthol, 4-aminonaphthol, 4-me
  • reducing agents may be used independently or in combination with two or more thereof.
  • An amount of the reducing agents used depends upon the kinds of photo-sensitive silver halide, the kinds of organic acid silver salts and the kinds of the other additives, and is normally from 0.05 mole to 10 mole per mole of a dye-providing material monomer unit, and more preferably, from 0.1 mole to 5 mole.
  • the binders to be used in the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention there may be used independently or in combination of two or more synthetic or natural high molecular substances such as polyvinyl butyral, polyvinyl acetate, ethyl cellulose, polymethyl methacrylate, cellulose acetate butylate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, gelatin and phthalic gelatin.
  • gelatin or the derivatives thereof in combination with such a hydrophilic polymer as polyvinyl pyrrolidone or polyvinyl alcohol, and it is more preferable to use the under-mentioned binders described in japanese Patent Application No. 104249/1983.
  • This binder contains gelatin and a vinyl pyrrolidone polymer.
  • the vinyl pyrrolidone polymer may be a polyvinyl pyrrolidone which is a homopolymer of vinyl pyrrolidone or may be a copolymer, including a graft copolymer, of vinyl pyrrolidone and one or two of the other monomers capable of polymerizing with the vinyl pyrrolidone. These polymers may be used regardless of any polymerization degree thereof.
  • the polyvinyl pyrrolidone may be a substituted polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and a preferred polyvinyl pyrrolidone has a molecular weight of from 1,000 to 400,000.
  • vinyl monomers including, for example, a (meth)acrylic ester such as acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and the alkyl esters thereof, a vinyl alcohol, a vinyl imidazol, a (meth)acrylamide, a vinyl carbinol or a vinyl alkyl ether. It is preferred that at least 20% by weight of the composition thereof (hereinafter a percentage by weight will be referred simply to as '%') is polyvinyl pyrrolidone. In the preferred examples of such polymers, their molecular weight each are from 5,000 to 400,000.
  • the gelatins may be treated in a liming or acidizing process, and they may also be an ossein gelatin, a pig-skin gelatin, a hide gelatin or a denatured gelatin in which the above-mentioned gelatin is esterified, or phenylcarbamoylated.
  • a gelatin amount to the total binder amount is preferably from 10 to 90% by weight and more preferably from 20 to 60% by weight, and the amount of polymers of the invention thereto is preferably from 5 to 90% by weight and more preferably from 10 to 80% by weight.
  • binders may contain other high molecular substances, and the preferred binders comprise, for example, gelatin and a mixture of polyvinyl pyrrolidone of from 1,000 to 400,000 in molecular weight and one or more than two of other high molecular substances, or they comprise gelatin and a mixture of a vinyl pyrrolidone copolymer of from 5,000 to 400,000 in molecular weight and one or more than two of other high molecular substances.
  • polyvinyl alcohol polyacrylamide, polymethacrylamide, polyvinyl butyral, polyethylene glycol, a polyethylene glycol ester, or a natural substance including, for example, a protein such as a cellulose derivative, and a polysaccharide such as starch and gum arabic.
  • the contents thereof may be from 0 to 85% by weight and preferably from 0 to 70% by weight.
  • the above-mentioned vinyl pyrrolidone polymers may also be a cross-linked polymers, and if this is the case, it is preferred to make them cross-link after they are coated on a support.
  • This case includes the case where a cross-linking reaction is progressed in nature.
  • the amount of the binders used therein is normally from 0.005 g to 100 g per square meter of a support, and more preferably from 0.01 g to 40 g.
  • the binders are to be used preferably in the amount of from 0.1 g to 10 g per mol of a dye-providing material monomer unit, and more preferably in the amount of from 0.25 g to 4 g.
  • Supports used for the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention include, for example, synthetic plastic films such as polyethylene film, cellulose acetate film, polyethylene terephthalate film and polyvinyl chloride, and paper supports such as photographic base paper, printing paper, baryta paper and resin-coated paper.
  • synthetic plastic films such as polyethylene film, cellulose acetate film, polyethylene terephthalate film and polyvinyl chloride
  • paper supports such as photographic base paper, printing paper, baryta paper and resin-coated paper.
  • development accelerators include alkali-releasing agents such as urea and guanidium trichloroacetate described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,220,840,3,531,285,4,012,260,4,060,420,4,088,496 and 4,207,392, Research Disclosure Nos. 15733,15734 and 15776, Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication Nos. 130745/1981 and 132332/1981; an inorganic acid described in Japanese Patent Examined Publication No.
  • alkali-releasing agents such as urea and guanidium trichloroacetate described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,220,840,3,531,285,4,012,260,4,060,420,4,088,496 and 4,207,392, Research Disclosure Nos. 15733,15734 and 15776, Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication Nos. 130745/1981 and 132332/1981; an inorganic acid described in Japanese Patent Examined Publication No.
  • phthalazinone examples thereof are phthalazinone, phthalimide, pyrazolone, quinazolinone, N-hydroxynaphthalimide, benzoxazine, naphthoxazinedione, 2,3-dihydro-phthalazinedione, 2,3-dihydro-1,3-oxazine-2,4-dione, oxypyridine, aminopyridine, hydroxyquinoline, aminoquinoline, isocarbostyryl, sulfonamide, 2H-1,3-benzothiazine-2,4-(3H)dione, benzotriazine, mercaptotriazole, dimercaptotetrazapentalene, phthalic acid, naphthalic acid, phthalamine acid, a mixture of one or more of the above compounds with imidazole compounds, a mixture of at least one of phthalic acid, naphthalic acid or an acid anhydride thereof with phthalazine compounds,
  • antifoggants examples include, for example, mercuric salts, oxidizing agents such as N-halogenoacetamides, N-halogenosuccinimides, perchloric acid and the salts thereof, inorganic peroxides and peroxosulfate; acids and the salts thereof such as sulfinic acid, lithium laurate, rosin, diterpenic acid, thiosulfonic acid; sulfur-containing compounds such as mercapto compound-releasing compounds, thiouracil, disulfide, sulfur in the form of a simple substance, mercapto-1,2,4-triazole, thiazolinethione and-polysulfide compounds; oxazoline; 1,2,4-triazole and phthalimide.
  • Thiol compounds and more preferably thiophenol compounds described in Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication No. 111636/1984 are also useful as the antifoggants.
  • printout inhibitors especially for use after a heat-developing process may be used in combination.
  • examples thereof are given in Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication Nos. 45228/1973, 119624/ 1975, 120328/1975, 46020/1978, which typically include halogenated hydrocarbons such as tetrabromo- butane tribromoethanol, 2-bromo-2-tolylacetamide, 2-bromo-2-tolylsulfonylacetamide, 2-tribromomethyl- sulfonylbenzothiazole and 2,4-bis(tribromomethyl)-6-methyltriazine.
  • halogenated hydrocarbons such as tetrabromo- butane tribromoethanol, 2-bromo-2-tolylacetamide, 2-bromo-2-tolylsulfonylacetamide, 2-tribromomethyl- sulfonylbenzothiazole and 2,4-bis(tribromomethyl)-6-methyl
  • the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention are preferably added with a variety of thermal solvents.
  • Any substances capable of accelerating a heat-development and/ or a heat-transfer can serve as a thermal solvent of the invention. They are preferably a solid, semi-solid or liquid substance capable of being dissolved or fused in a binder when it is heated up, and those include, as the preferable ones, a urea derivative such as dimethylurea, diethylurea and phenylurea; an amide derivative such as acetamide, and benzamide; a polyhydric alcohol such as 1,5-pentanediol, 1-6-pentanediol, 1-2-cyclohexanediol, pentaerythritol, and trimethylolethane; or a polyethylene glycol. More typical examples are given in Japanese Patent Application No. 104249/1983. These thermal solvents may be used independently or in combination.
  • a hydroquinone derivative described in Japanese Patent Application No. 56506/1984 such as di-t-octyl hydroquinone, dodecanyl hydroquinone; and a combination of hydroquinone derivative and a benzotriazole derivative such as 4-sulfobenzotriazole and 5-carboxybenzotriazole described in Japanese Patent Application No. 66380/1984, are preferably used.
  • Sulfur-containing compounds described in Japanese Patent Examined Publication No. 5393/1971, and Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication Nos. 54329/1975 and 77034/1975 may be used for post-processing.
  • they may contain the precursors of isothiuronium type stabilizers described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,301,678, 3,506,444, 3,824,103 and 3,844,788 and the precursors of activator stabilizers described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,669,670, 4,012,260 and 4,060,420.
  • Water releasing agents such as cane sugar and NH 4 Fe(S04)2'12H20 may also be used, and further, a heat-development may be carried out by supplying water as is described in Japanese Patent O.P.I. Publication No. 132332/1981.
  • additives and coating aids such as spectral sensitizing dyes, antihalation dyes, optical brightening agents, hardners, antistatic agents, plasticizers and spreading agents may be added if necessary.
  • the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention is to contain in the same layer (1) a photo-sensitive silver halide, (2) a reducing agent, (3) a dye-providing polymer which is a cyan dye-providing substance (4) a binder, and, if required, (5) an organic silver salt. It is, however, not always needed to contain them into a single photographic component layer.
  • a photo-sensitive layer is divided into two layers and the components of the above-mentioned (1), (2), (4) and (5) are contained in one photo-sensitive layer, and the dye-providing polymer (3) which is the cyan dye-providing substance is contained in the other layer which is provided adjacently to the one layer, provided that the reactions can be made with each other.
  • the red photo-sensitive layer may be separated into more than two layers, namely, a high- sensitive layer and a low-sensitive layer.
  • the layer may be provided with one or more photo-sensitive layers which differ in color sensitivity.
  • the layer may be provided with various photographic component layers uch as an over layer, a subbing layer, a backing layer, an intermediate layer, or a filter layer.
  • the dye-providing polymers which are the cyan dye-providing substances can be contained in the red photo-sensitive layer.
  • the invention shall not be limited thereto, but the dye-providing polymers can be contained in other green photo-sensitive layer or blue photo-sensitive layer.
  • a coating solution is prepared each for a protective layer, an interlayer, a subbing layer, a backing layer and other photographic component layers and coated by such various coating methods as a dipping method, an air knife method, a curtain coating method, and a hopper coating method described in U.S. Patent No. 3,681,294, thus the photo-sensitive materials are prepared.
  • the constituents used for the photographic component layers of the heat-developable color photo-sensitive materials of the invention are coated on the support and the coating thickness after drying is preferably from 1 to 1,000 pm and more preferably from 3 to 20 pm.
  • the heat-developable color photo-sensitive material of the invention is color developed by being heated after imagewise exposure usually at from 80°C to 200°C and preferably at from 120°C to 170°C for from 1 s. to 180 s. and preferably from 1.5 s. to 120 s. And if necessary, it may be developed by contacting a water-impermeable material or it may be preheated at from 70°C to 180°C before exposure.
  • Latent images are obtained by imagewise exposure of rays of radiant light including visible radiation.
  • light sources for ordinary color printing such as tungsten lamp, mercury lamp, xenon lamp, laser beam and CRT beam may be used as the light source thereof.
  • Heating methods applicable to ordinary heat-developable photo-sensitive materials may all be utilized, for example, bringing the materials into contact with a preheated block or plate, a heated roller or a heated drum, making the materials passing through high temperature atmosphere, using high-frequency heating, or providing a conductive layer in the photo-sensitive materials of the invention or in a thermal transfer image receiving layer (element) to utilize Joul's heat generated by applying electric current or a ferromagnetic field.
  • Heating patterns have no particular limit, namely, it is allowed that the materials are preheated in advance and then heated again, that the materials are continuously heated by heating repeatedly for a short time at a high temperature and then for a long time at a low temperature, and that the materials are heated discontinuously, however, an easy heating pattern is most preferable. And it is also preferable that the exposure and the heating process are made simultaneously.
  • the image-pattern receiving layers capable of receiving the diffusive dyes produced imagewise by that a photographic component layer is exposed imagewise and heat-developed
  • those normally used in the field may be used.
  • a sheet of paper, cloth or plastic may be used, and preferably, those provided with an image receiving layer containing a compound having the capability of receiving a mordant or a dye onto a support may be used.
  • the particularly preferred image receiving layers include, for example, the layers comprising polyvinyl chloride described in Japanese Patent Application No. 97907/1983, and the layers comprising polycarbonate and a plasticizer described in Japanese Patent Application No. 128600/1983.
  • the image receiving layers are allowed to be provided onto the one and the same support on which the above-mentioned photographic component layer is also provided.
  • the image receiving layer may be so arranged as to be peeled off from the photographic component layer after the dyes were transferred, or the image receiving layer and the photographic component layer may be provided onto the separate supports, respectively.
  • the formation of the image receiving layer shall not be limited particularly, but any technique can be used for the formation thereof.
  • Dissolution of 610 mg of the exemplified dye-providing polymer (PC-2 of which the weight-average molecular weight Mw was 6,900) was made in 2.12 ml of ethyl acetate.
  • the resulting solution was mixed in an aqueous solution of 2.5% gelatin containing a surface active agent, and was added with water to make 6.5 ml. After then, the resulting solution was dispersed by a homogenizer. Thus, a dye-providing polymer dispersion solution was obtained.
  • the dispersion solution obtained in the amount of 6.5 ml was mixed with 3.5 ml of water contining 450 mg of polyvinyl pyrrolidone having the average molecular weight of 30,000 and 500 mg of 1,5-pentanediol, and was added with 200 mg of the above-mentioned reducing agent (R-3), and then, the pH value thereof was adjusted to 5.5 by making use of 3% citric acid.
  • the resulting dispersion solution was added with a silver iodobromide emulsion (containing 85 mg of gelatin) of 0.1 pm in average particle size in the amount of 1 x 10- 3 mole in terms of silver, and was prepared by adding water to make 15 mi. Then the resulting emulsion was coated on a polyethyleneterephthalate support by a wire-bar so that the coated thickness can be 8 pm after dried. Thus, a photo-sensitive layer was prepared.
  • the resulting photo-sensitive material was dried and then exposed to white light of 16,000 Ixs through a step-wedge.
  • an image receiving sheet comprising a sheet of baryta paper coated thereon polyvinyl chloride as the material of the image receiving layer and the coated surface of the above-mentioned exposed photo-sensitive material are superposed one over the other, and a heat-development was carried out at 150°C for one minute. After then the image receiving sheet was peeled off. Thus, a magenta transfer image was obtained on the image receiving sheet.
  • Table 1 shows a maximum reflection density (Dmax) of the obtained transfer image and the fog (Dmin).
  • Example 1 A photo-sensitive material similar to that of Example 1 was prepared, except that the dye-providing polymer, PC-2, in the photo-sensitive material of Example 1 was replaced by the following comparative polymer A, and the resulting photo-sensitive material was heat-developed similarly to the case of Example 1. The results thereof are shown in Table 1.
  • Dissolution of 24 g of 4-sulfobenzotriazole and 4 g of sodium hydroxide was made by adding 300 ml of a mixture of ethanol and water (The proportion thereof was 1:1). Into the resulting solution, 20 ml of 5- normal solution of silver nitrate were dropped and at this time 5-normal solution of sodium hydroxide was simultaneously dropped so as to keep the pH value at 7 to 8. The resulting solution was stirred at room temperature for one hour and was then prepared with 400 ml of water to prepare a solution of 4-sulfobenzotriazole silver containing 4-sulfobenzotriazole in an excessive amount by 20%.
  • PC-2 dye-providing polymer
  • the mixture of 4 ml of the above-mentioned solution of 4-sulfobenzotriazole silver was made with 6 cc of the dispersion solution of the dye-providing polymer, and the resulting mixture was further added with 450 ml of polyvinyl pyrolidone having an average molecular weight of 30,000,120 mg of pentaerythritol, 420 mg of 1,5-pentanediol and 200 mg of the reducing agent (R-3) which was similar to that used in Example 1, and then the pH value thereof was adjusted to 5.5 with 3% citric acid.
  • the resulting dispersion solution was added with a silver iodobromide emulsion (containing 75 mg of gelatin) having an average particle size of 0.05 ⁇ m in the amount of 3 x 10- 4 in terms of silver so as to make 14 ml with water, and then the resulting emulsion was coated over to a polyethyleneterephthalate support by making use of a wire-bar so that the dried thickness of the coat can be 8 pm Thus, a photo-sensitive layer was provided.
  • a photo-sensitive material similar to that prepared in Example 2 was prepared, except that the dye-providing polymer PC-2 used in the photo-sensitive material of Example 2 was replaced by the dye-providing polymer shown in Table 2.
  • the prepared photo-sensitive material was heat-developed similarly to the case of Example 2, and a cyan transfer image was obtained on an image receiving sheet. The results of the transfer image density obtained are also shown in Table 2.
  • a photo-sensitive material similar to that prepared in Example 2 was prepared, except that the reducing agent used in the photo-sensitive material prepared in Example 2 was replaced by the reducing agent shown in Table 2.
  • the resulting photo-sensitive material was exposed and heat-developed similarly to the case of Example 2, and a cyan transfer image was obtained.
  • the results of the transfer image density obtained are shown also in Table 2.
  • a photo-sensitive material similar to that prepared in Example 2 was prepared, except that the dye-providing polymer PC-2 used in the photo-sensitive material of Example 2 was replaced by the aforementioned comparative polymer A and the undermentioned comparative polymer B.
  • the resulting photo-sensitive material was heat-developed similarly to the case of Example 2, and a cyan transfer image was obtained on the image receiving sheet.
  • the maximum reflection density thereof is stable at a greater value than in the comparative example, and a cyan transfer image being further improved in foginess can be obtained.
  • the primary photo-sensitive layer was provided by coating on a polyethyleneterephthalate support in the same manner as in Example 2, except that silver iodobromide having an average particle size of 0.05 pm which was used in the photo-sensitive layer of Example 2 was replaced by red light-sensitive silver iodobromide having an average particle size of 0.125 pm and the dried thickness of 8 ⁇ m was changed to 6 ⁇ m.
  • the resulting dispersion solution was mixed with 450 mg of polyvinyl pyrolidone having an average molecular weight of 30,000,120 mg of polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 300 and 5 ml of an aqueous solution containing 420 mg of 3-methyl-1,3,5-pentanetriol and 75 mg of gelatin, and the resulting mixture was added with water to make 15
  • an interlayer was provided by coating the resulting solution on the primary photo-sensitive layer by making use of a wire-bar, so that the dried thickness can be 2 pm.
  • the secondary photo-sensitive layer was provided by coating the same layer as was used in the primary layer, except that the silver halide emulsion used in the primary photo-sensitive layer was replaced by a green-sensitive silver iodobromide emulsion of 0.125 ⁇ m in an average particle size in the amount added of 1 x 10- 3 mol in terms of silver, and the dye-providing polymers were also replaced by the following compound 1 used in the amount of 500 mg.
  • the multilayered photo-sensitive material comprising a support bearing the primary photo-sensitive layer, the interlayer and the secondary photo-sensitive layer was exposed to green-light of 1,600 Ixs through a step wedge and was heat-developed similarly to the case of Example 2. After then the image receiving sheet was peeled off. The density (Dmax and Dmin) of the resulting dye image was measured by making use of a green light and a red-light, respectively. The results thereof are shown in Table 3.
  • a photo-sensitive material similar to that prepared in Example 5 was prepared, except that the dye-providing polymer PC-2 for the primary photo-sensitive layer used in the photo-sensitive material prepared in Example 5 was replaced by the following Compound 2.
  • Thus prepared photo-sensitive material was exposed and heat-developed in the same process as in Example 4.
  • the results of the image density obtained are shown in Table 3.

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JPS6161158A (ja) 1986-03-28
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